S09671 Summary:
| BILL NO | S09671A |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A10960-A |
| SPONSOR | HINCHEY |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §5-508, El L | |
| Requires the board of elections to notify victims of domestic violence whose registration is maintained as confidential of the expiration of the confidentiality of such registration records; requires such notice to include information on a new application for confidentiality of records. | |
S09671 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9671--A IN SENATE April 1, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the board of elections to notify victims of domestic violence whose registration is maintained as confidential of the expiration of the confidentiality of such registration records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 5-508 of the election law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) No later than six months prior to the expiration of such confiden- 4 tiality of registration records provided to a victim of domestic 5 violence, the board of elections shall provide the victim of domestic 6 violence with notice by mail of the date of expiration of such confiden- 7 tiality and information on the process to make a new application for 8 confidentiality of such records. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14320-03-6